Hackers exploit PHP flaw (CVE-2024-4577) to deploy Quasar RAT and XMRig miners, with Taiwan hit hardest. Update PHP now to ...

Facct’s team has tracked the use of this novel delivery mechanism since the end of May, identifying over 150 emails embedded with the XMRig miner, a legitimate open-source application repurposed ...

However, since mid-June this year, crooks started scanning for vulnerable instances, dropping the XMRig miner where possible.